(517) it was too dark inside the tree to tell the adults apart, but when I offered her worms with which to give the young birds a last feed, also ate them herself. Do they know, or do they only assume that I gave them enough? November 11th. (Min. during the night 50). 8:30 A.M. It is curious, but the attitude of Brownie is the same this morning. Parents neglect- ing feeding? At 7:45 I went to the nest,and,as soon as I touched it, the youngsters popped up like jacks-in-the-box. B came at once, but not hurriedly, and stopped short of the nest at my shoulder, where he reached for a worm. I held the worm box at the nest and he went there and ate all he wanted himself, feeding only one to one bird. He then paused as if assuming that the next move was mine and that his only function was to supervise feeding and keep the nest clean. This is exactly what he did. I fed the nestlings with the squirt gun, B picked up the crumbs and ate them and picked up the droppings. If I failed to get the food far enough down the gullets, he reached forward, took it out and ate it and picked crumbs off of their beaks and from the tip of the "gun". At 9:A.M. I gave another round of soft food, Greenie, this time, coming with a spider and topping off with meal-worms after eating some herself. Mixed bathing. At 9:45 both B&G were having a bath in the Indian mortar, first one, then the other and then both together, making a thorough job of it. To wash their heads they will stand on the rim and immerse their heads entirely, shaking vigorously, sometimes with little squeaks and pips. Knowing they would be wet for some time, I went to the nest and gave the youngsters a feed of warm, moist soft-food. The squirt-gun makes it very easy and they open up with little hesi- tation. The food is kept warm in an improvised water-bath heated by a minute gas flame. No ants about the nest. The youngsters are